Dude now I have maybe about 6 pedals total. I decided to sell most my pedal collection and bought two fractals one for playing live and one for home use…however I always come back to this channel because I adore it.
It's one of those pedal that I immediately connected with. Not sure which mode is my favorite, but it doesn't really matter, it's just got a great collection of sounds.
@@StompboxBreakdown I love it. Sounds better the more I play with it. The additional modulation options are fantastic and really useful, with a fair amount of "motion" hidden in the knobs. The additional reverbs are a bit less interesting, but I do like the plate and weirdo "fugue" - octaves up and down - sort of steel drums/caliope/organ sound with lots of possibility. I think I'd prefer another delay in lieu of the third or fourth reverb, but I'm not complaining. Extra external controllability vs the standard version is a mixed blessing, as usual. Tiny lettering on the function chart is invisible to my middle aged eyes, so I print a giant cheat sheet. Awkward. All in all, I have enjoyed it very much. It does a lot of stuff really well, without pretense or silliness. Occasionally some of the inevitable digital artifacts are unpleasant, but only in isolation. Surely his new architecture in the Halo and Zoma will eclipse this pedal in time. Meanwhile, mine stays on the board while other pedals come and go.
Cool pedal breakdown. I got to play through a vintage Magnatone amp a while back, and I liked its tone so much that I got a Magnavibe pedal that’s supposed to accurately reproduce the Magnatone's unique warble. It doesn't have all the options the Keeley has, but I love the way it sounds. The Magnavibe uses an LDR, so I'm not sure if they're being produced anymore.
Oooo! When you said "Vanilla tremolo" I had a great idea. Someone needs to make a Vanilla and Chocolate tremolo where the "Vanilla" side is regular optical/Fender based trem and "Chocolate" is some syrupy, harmonically rich swirl of goodness. Yum! Anyway, my take on tremolo is that it should sound like like your guitar is drunk or add a certain tension underneath the main melody. I never use it dead on a drummer's beat because then it gets kinda lost in the mix, in my opinion.
Drunk guitar is a great way of thinking about it. I love the ice cream shop descriptor as well. You should pitch this to someone who can actually make it a reality!
I’ve had this pedal twice and traded it twice- while I absolutely loved every sound I got from it, for my use case I could never get past not being able to bypass the reverb/trem independently. What a great pedal it is though
That's a good point, when I brought this out for a small coffee shop gig, I found myself finding the right time to shut it off because I knew that the tremolo AND the reverb falling out at the same time would make a noticeable difference. I guess another reason to look into the workstation edition.
Mr. Breakdown, What a delightful pedal! I applaud Keeley's focus in delivering a pedal with a few truly useful modes plus a two dipswitch options. And the price is reasonable! Right now I'm wrestling with my bias against digital pedals. I agree with you on plate versus spring reverb, but for a different reason. I already have the basic tremolo and spring reverb in my amplifiers so any pedal reverb needs to offer something different. What's my beef with digital? Partly it's the unavoidable latency delay for the A/D and D/A converters. For delay pedals, I convinced myself digital isn't a problem since the delay involved is much greater than any converter latency. For some other pedal types, if the sound CAN be generated in an analog fashion and traditionally is done that way, I prefer to have an analog pedal. For example, Univibe with the opto-coupler circuits. And for fuzz, I prefer an analog approach. However some things like Leslie effect can't be done with analog unless one is willing to pay for a rotating speaker cabinet! My question for you for this pedal is if you've seen similar functionality done (although more expensively) with an analog circuit.
I hear you on the digital stuff, it's a tough line to walk. It seems like the newest wave of digital is always *the one* that makes it so we don't have to hold our noses and pretend the last wave was good... except that's happened like 8 times now. For something simple like tremolo, which can probably be implemented in a fairly simple algorithm, I think it's fine as long as there's enough headroom and it's running on a fairly current DSP. Next time I do a DSP pedal, I'll try to do an A/B test to measure the actual latency because I'm curious. Univibe, edge-of-breakup amplifiers, and certain types of reverb, I feel are almost like irrational numbers that can't be fully pinned down. There's an element of chaos to them that resists summarization and encapsulation. I'm super impressed with what I'm able to get from my Universal Audio Apollo unit, especially when the amp sims and space modelers are running on the hardware, and I think Eventide has tapped into some magic. For pedal-sized DSP, it seems like Keeley has a good thing going, but I agree, whatever comes next will highlight the cracks in whatever we have now.
@@StompboxBreakdown Thanks so much for your detailed and thoughtful reply! I sure didn't expect it. I suspect that if your channel "becomes successful", it would be much harder for you to give these kinds of replies to random viewers. Thanks again for the great work you do!
Yup, that's the one. Just learned that it apparently closed earlier this year? I used to love that place because they had all those guitars out on the wall, and didn't care about letting me try them out, even if they knew I wasn't gonna buy anything. They also actively pushed selling used pedals, which is the only way I was able to get my hands on some of those early DODs and Boss pedals.
Love your videos, but this did nothing to explain how to actually set a tremolo? Does a drummer follow the tremolo, do you set the trello to the beat, or neither? We know there's no right or wrong in the world of pedals, but this can be an annoying effect if not done right? Just curious 😁
My own preference is that I want a tremolo 100% locked to the beat or nowhere even close to the beat. When the tremolo is going 90bpm and the song is being played 92bpm (for example), it can make it feel like the drummer is off, or the band is dragging/pushing, so I just set it somewhere and let it go. Actually, my favorite tremolo is the dynamic kind, where it reacts in realtime to playing dynamics, so it's not locked to any bpm at all.
@@Lomoholga2 Hold on you did read where I wrote " We know there's no right or wrong in the world of pedals" I sub to this channel because I respect his opinion
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Awww, thanks
Dude now I have maybe about 6 pedals total. I decided to sell most my pedal collection and bought two fractals one for playing live and one for home use…however I always come back to this channel because I adore it.
Your videos are always fun and interesting. Thank you again.
Thank YOU for watching!
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I came for the dancing, but stayed for the tones 🎵
I'd like to think my playing is tastier than my dancing
@StompboxBreakdown Your playing is 🔥 but don't you dare sell your dancing short! Believe in your talent 🕺
Great Sound Man, Thankyou 🎸🎶🎸
Thank you so much. Appreciate that.
I got this pedal recently. It's fantastic!
It's one of those pedal that I immediately connected with. Not sure which mode is my favorite, but it doesn't really matter, it's just got a great collection of sounds.
I hear multi-colored socks are the pathway to more likes and subs.
noted!
Love it. Well done! I liked mine so much that I nabbed the work station version, with even more options. Really cool!
Oooh nice. How do you like it?
@@StompboxBreakdown I love it. Sounds better the more I play with it. The additional modulation options are fantastic and really useful, with a fair amount of "motion" hidden in the knobs. The additional reverbs are a bit less interesting, but I do like the plate and weirdo "fugue" - octaves up and down - sort of steel drums/caliope/organ sound with lots of possibility. I think I'd prefer another delay in lieu of the third or fourth reverb, but I'm not complaining.
Extra external controllability vs the standard version is a mixed blessing, as usual. Tiny lettering on the function chart is invisible to my middle aged eyes, so I print a giant cheat sheet. Awkward.
All in all, I have enjoyed it very much. It does a lot of stuff really well, without pretense or silliness. Occasionally some of the inevitable digital artifacts are unpleasant, but only in isolation. Surely his new architecture in the Halo and Zoma will eclipse this pedal in time. Meanwhile, mine stays on the board while other pedals come and go.
I need one, and one of those NGE shirts, very cool 😎
Yeah you do!
Cool pedal breakdown. I got to play through a vintage Magnatone amp a while back, and I liked its tone so much that I got a Magnavibe pedal that’s supposed to accurately reproduce the Magnatone's unique warble. It doesn't have all the options the Keeley has, but I love the way it sounds. The Magnavibe uses an LDR, so I'm not sure if they're being produced anymore.
Oooo! When you said "Vanilla tremolo" I had a great idea. Someone needs to make a Vanilla and Chocolate tremolo where the "Vanilla" side is regular optical/Fender based trem and "Chocolate" is some syrupy, harmonically rich swirl of goodness. Yum! Anyway, my take on tremolo is that it should sound like like your guitar is drunk or add a certain tension underneath the main melody. I never use it dead on a drummer's beat because then it gets kinda lost in the mix, in my opinion.
Drunk guitar is a great way of thinking about it. I love the ice cream shop descriptor as well. You should pitch this to someone who can actually make it a reality!
I’ve had this pedal twice and traded it twice- while I absolutely loved every sound I got from it, for my use case I could never get past not being able to bypass the reverb/trem independently. What a great pedal it is though
That's a good point, when I brought this out for a small coffee shop gig, I found myself finding the right time to shut it off because I knew that the tremolo AND the reverb falling out at the same time would make a noticeable difference. I guess another reason to look into the workstation edition.
Har settings sounds almost as warm as the JHS 3 Series HarmTrem pedal
Mr. Breakdown,
What a delightful pedal! I applaud Keeley's focus in delivering a pedal with a few truly useful modes plus a two dipswitch options. And the price is reasonable! Right now I'm wrestling with my bias against digital pedals. I agree with you on plate versus spring reverb, but for a different reason. I already have the basic tremolo and spring reverb in my amplifiers so any pedal reverb needs to offer something different.
What's my beef with digital? Partly it's the unavoidable latency delay for the A/D and D/A converters. For delay pedals, I convinced myself digital isn't a problem since the delay involved is much greater than any converter latency. For some other pedal types, if the sound CAN be generated in an analog fashion and traditionally is done that way, I prefer to have an analog pedal. For example, Univibe with the opto-coupler circuits. And for fuzz, I prefer an analog approach. However some things like Leslie effect can't be done with analog unless one is willing to pay for a rotating speaker cabinet!
My question for you for this pedal is if you've seen similar functionality done (although more expensively) with an analog circuit.
I hear you on the digital stuff, it's a tough line to walk. It seems like the newest wave of digital is always *the one* that makes it so we don't have to hold our noses and pretend the last wave was good... except that's happened like 8 times now. For something simple like tremolo, which can probably be implemented in a fairly simple algorithm, I think it's fine as long as there's enough headroom and it's running on a fairly current DSP. Next time I do a DSP pedal, I'll try to do an A/B test to measure the actual latency because I'm curious.
Univibe, edge-of-breakup amplifiers, and certain types of reverb, I feel are almost like irrational numbers that can't be fully pinned down. There's an element of chaos to them that resists summarization and encapsulation. I'm super impressed with what I'm able to get from my Universal Audio Apollo unit, especially when the amp sims and space modelers are running on the hardware, and I think Eventide has tapped into some magic. For pedal-sized DSP, it seems like Keeley has a good thing going, but I agree, whatever comes next will highlight the cracks in whatever we have now.
@@StompboxBreakdown Thanks so much for your detailed and thoughtful reply! I sure didn't expect it. I suspect that if your channel "becomes successful", it would be much harder for you to give these kinds of replies to random viewers. Thanks again for the great work you do!
Opening jam giving strong Oasis vibes, and I mean that in a very good way.
Ooh yeah, I can see that. Add in an acoustic guitar and I think I've got something for the new tour
Good pedal! I keep a Verb-o-Trem on my board.
Definitely a good one!
Freehold Music in Freehold, NJ? If so, that place was the shit.
Yup, that's the one. Just learned that it apparently closed earlier this year? I used to love that place because they had all those guitars out on the wall, and didn't care about letting me try them out, even if they knew I wasn't gonna buy anything. They also actively pushed selling used pedals, which is the only way I was able to get my hands on some of those early DODs and Boss pedals.
The thumbnail made me think this had real springs in it that you could shake for effect. Disappointed.
First like!
Thanks for not doin that.
Love your videos, but this did nothing to explain how to actually set a tremolo? Does a drummer follow the tremolo, do you set the trello to the beat, or neither? We know there's no right or wrong in the world of pedals, but this can be an annoying effect if not done right? Just curious 😁
For gods sake just do whatever and figure it out.
Dont rely on other’s opinions regarding subjective art c’mon
My own preference is that I want a tremolo 100% locked to the beat or nowhere even close to the beat. When the tremolo is going 90bpm and the song is being played 92bpm (for example), it can make it feel like the drummer is off, or the band is dragging/pushing, so I just set it somewhere and let it go. Actually, my favorite tremolo is the dynamic kind, where it reacts in realtime to playing dynamics, so it's not locked to any bpm at all.
@@Lomoholga2 Hold on you did read where I wrote " We know there's no right or wrong in the world of pedals" I sub to this channel because I respect his opinion